“Please let everything be fine please let everything be fine please let everything be fine” Twilight kept repeating as she galloped, flew and teleported her was back to her castle with Spike holding onto her mane for dear life. When the large crystalline structure finally came into view and it was still in one piece Twilight started to breathe a sigh of relief.

And then an explosion from inside blew out one of the walls.

That sigh turned into a jaw-dropping gasp as Twilight froze in place. The scene playing out in slow motion until a shout was heard coming from the castle.

“LUNA!!! THAT WAS WAY TOO MUCH!” the sound of Princess Celestia’s voice, even when shouting, helped ease some of the worry from Twilight.

“WHAT!?!” and the addition of hearing Princess Luna’s voice helped as well and shortened the amount of time Twilight stood staring at the hole in her castle.

“OH GREAT THE TINNITUS IS BACK!” Twilight managed to hear Celestia shouting as she started galloping again.

“WHAT WAS THAT! I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE TINNITUS AND CHANGELINGS!” Luna shouted once again before the edge of a magic blast could be seen through the hole in the wall and several changelings then flew out from said hole. Twilight deftly moved around them as she slowed down and finally got a look at the scene inside her castle.

Both Princesses were fighting off a group of changelings, looking only slightly haggard and just slightly singed and exploded. Celestia looked calm with just a little bit of anger like a proper battlefield commander should while Luna was smiling like a maniac as she savagely fought any changeling that came close to her.

“Aw, that is so cool! I wish I had a camera!” Spike exclaimed from her back and Twilight wanted to crane her neck so she could give him a disapproving look but she didn’t want to take her focus off the battle that was going on inside her castle.

“Ah, Twilight you’re back. Sorry about the wall, somebody didn’t think about the consequences to her actions,” Celestia said as she swatted away changelings with her magic. Throwing a quick glare at her sister who was batting away changelings with her bare hooves.

“It’s fine, as a princess she will have to learn about castle reconstruction sooner or later. This just helps to set it UP!” Luna finished with a grunt as she bucked a changeling so hard he flew across the room taking several of his or her brethren with him when he collided with them.

“Don’t try to justify you haughty needless destruction with promises of future teachings to Twilight! She needs to get to Tracer, Winston, and Bastion. These changelings didn’t come alone there were some other ponies with them and they didn’t look friendly.” Celestia chastised her sister and warned Twilight who snapped to attention and quickly galloped past the situation. As she galloped she her sounds coming from deeper inside the castle. What sounded like various different blasts got louder and louder as she got closer to where the mirror was.

“Oh look Twilight’s here to fight. Heehee hey that rhymed!” Twilight breathed a sigh of relief as she got to outside the room and found her friends fighting off changelings. Rarity was busy blasting changelings into the air for Rainbow Dash to zoom around and punch them back down into the ground where Applejack would round them up. She was now glad that she had randomly stocked up on a lot of rope when she had passed a sale at the market because Applejack was sure putting it to good use.

“Sorry we’re late everyone I just had to check-”

“Genji and his brother had this cool fight with flips, ninja stars, arrows, swords and cool energy dragons that made a huge explosion!” Spike shouted interrupting Twilight who managed to give him a quick look as she ducked and started blasting changelings.

“Anyway, where’s Fluttershy? Twilight asked and Applejack managed to stop hog tying changelings long enough to point over towards the doors to Twilight’s lab where Fluttershy where all manner of loud bangs were coming from. As quickly as she could Twilight managed to move over to her friend and joined her as she looked inside.

Inside she managed to see Winston, Tracer, and Bastion fighting it out with two other ponies whom she didn’t recognize. The one who wore the white mask though reminded her of Sombra though as he seemed to be made out of shadow as he did his best to dodge all of Winston's and Bastion’s attacks. The other one she could barely keep track of as she zipped around the room with some kind of contraption as she attacked Tracer who blipped in and out and all around.

“Oh I hope they’re a bit more careful, they are somethings in there that are-” the universe decided that today was not Twilight’s day to finishing sentences as a sudden flash followed by a loud BOOM went off and Twilight only managed to get a look as something came careening at and then through the doorway before crashing on the far wall.

“Oh no!” Fluttershy and headed over as Twilight finally noticed that it was Bastion who been rocketed out of the room.

But before Twilight could join her she heard two noises and then found that Tracer was now in the space Fluttershy had just occupied next to her.

“Phew that was….phew,” Tracer said as she took a couple deep breaths before noticing that Twilight was looking. “Don’t worry about it luv, the cavalry's here,” she said giving a slight flex, doing her best to assuage Twilight of her fears.

“Tracer, who are these guys!” Twilight shouted a bit causing the energetic mare to jump slightly.

“Well...they’re… old enemies of ours. They were the guys we were fighting before we all got teleported here. My guess is they’re after the mirror to try and get back and get rid of us.”

But the mirror isn’t even working at the moment!” Twilight shouted again, getting a little annoyed and frazzled and annoyed with the whole situation. First, it was an explosion, then the rock monsters, then genji and his brother, and now this.

“My guess is that they know about that and have some kind of plan. But the good thing is we have them mostly outnumbered...not counting all the buggy ponies,” Tracer trying her best to sound cheery in this small battlefield.

“That...is...just….is it safe to go in there?” Twilight started to form a sentence before she gave up and asked a question to distract herself.

“Um...let me check,” Tracer said picking up a piece of debris in her hoof, slowly she moved around twilight and towards the edge. Slowly she stuck her hoof back into the doorway putting the rock debris into the open. A second later a small thundercrack sounded and the debris basically exploded into smaller chunks. “Well. it will be once I give her a distraction,” Tracer said with a slight sigh and she was gone in a flash before Twilight could notice or even ask her what she was going to use for a distraction.

Twilight went back to watching as Tracer zoomed around her foe who was shooting at her. Doing her best to stay out of the way of incoming fire while also firing back. Seeing a bit of a clear path Twilight snuck into the room, keeping low as Winston and Tracer battle their opponents and blasts whirls of energy, shadow, and lightning clashed overhead. She managed to make it under the table next to the mirror and was thinking it would be ok to teleport it out of the room before something large crashed into the table. When Twilight looked she found that Winston had been knocked down and was in a daze as the masked figure slowly walked towards him, casting his weapons aside and somehow summoning new ones.

“Stupid monkey” she heard him growl as he got closer to Winston whose body and the table shielded Twilight from his view. But underneath the table, something finally broke in Twilight. Whether it was the insult hurled at Winston, the destruction of her castle or how everything had gone from somewhat peaceful to completely insane, Twilight had had enough.

Reaper had just leveled his guns on Winston, intent to finish him off when something purple moved from underneath the table and then he felt something slam into him and send him flying back. He crashed into some shelves and fell to the ground, he looked up while groaning to find a purple pony standing between Winston and Himself. This must have been the “Twilight Sparkle that Chrysalis had talked about. He cursed to himself that things had gotten this far, obviously, things had gone wrong since Junkrat and Roadhog were late and Hanzo had gone to have a stupid fight with his cyborg brother.

“You...you are going to stop fighting and destroying my castle right now,” Twilight said as she stood her ground as Reaper slowly got to his feet. “You are going to stop and surrender and get all these changelings to stop as well!” she said still trying to remain slightly calm, Reaper noticed that her eyes began to lose their color and instead shine a bright white, he knew he had to do something to get her out of the way.

“I have a better idea…” he said as he started to pull what little shadow power he had back to him. “How about you DIE DIE DIE!” he let his rage go and fired everything he had at Twilight as his world went red. Producing gun after gun, trying his best to get rid of the princess. Only when he was spent did he notice that something was wrong. As the smoke cleared he noticed that everything around him was tinged magenta. A magenta dome surrounded him, having blocked his attack and making sure that nothing else was destroyed in the process.

“I told you that you were going to stop,” Twilight said in a matter of fact tone as her magic shifted and she used it to bind Reaper where he stood as Winston got back to his feet.

“Phew...thanks for the assist Twilight. But what about-” Winston thank her and was about to as when Widowmaker unceremoniously thudded on the ground next to Reaper, her lip bust open and her face bruised as well.

“That...was for the last two times you...purple…” Tracer said as she landed and came skidding to a halt next to Twilight and Winston, finishing her sentence with a simple hoof wave in the air before she crashed onto her haunches, her goggles slightly cracked and a few cuts marked her face.

“You think you’ve won but the changelings-” Reaper began to say while struggling against his bond.

“Have been fully pacified” Celestia interrupted as she, Luna, BAstion and the rest of Twilight's friends entered the room. Genji followed a minute after them, dragging Hanzo with him, having tied him up with his own bowstring. Reaper just stared from behind his mask at all the ponies for a while before someone else broke the silence.

“Oh, and your other ‘allies’ have switched sides!” Everyone turned to find Junkrat, Roadhog, Reinhardt, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst, Shining Armor, And Cadence all walk in looking like they had fought their own battle with Flurry sitting on top of Roadhogs head playing with parts of his mask while babbling and giggling.

Cadence, Shining!” Twilight rushed over to her brother and sister-in-law and hugged them while still maintaining the spell. “What happened to you guys?” she asked.

“Oh you know me, Roadhog and Chrissy showed up and had a nice fight with lots of big explosions, shouting about getting revenge and dramatic pausing. And then we decided to switch sides when this baby just walked into the middle of everything!” Junkrat butted into the little family hug while giving a very abridged version of what happened in the crystal empire which managed to make Twilight do a quick double take at Flurry who was still messing with Roadhog’s mask while the giant earth pony remained passive and stoic like a statue.

“And while Chrissy wanted to use the little tyke as a hostage I was all heroic like going ‘naw you can’t do that to kids! Plus she’s adorably destructive!” he said reaching up to be able to ruffle Flurry's hair with his mechanical arm. She laughed slightly a the sensation before sneezing and firing a laser which went and struck Reaper and Widowmaker by blind chance. “See this kid is amazing! I wish I had one...but anyway after she basically did the same thing except bigger to Chrissy, sending her absolutely flying, by the way, we switched sides cause any side that has this kid is the side I wanna be on!” Junkrat finished his weird story/monologue/rant to find everyone was staring at him with a mix of emotions.

“Rrrrrright…” Twilight said looking from Junkrat over to Cadence’s group who all gave her a shrug that stated that Junkrat was basically telling the truth but were too tired to interrupt and set things straight.

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After a slight clean up everyone was once again gathered around the mirror. As Twilight diligently repaired it with the crystal the sunset had managed to grab before booking it back to ponyville.

“OK...and that should do it,” She said as the crystals fused together and the all the cracks in the mirror disappeared a magical flash showing that the mirror was now back to working as it should. And now if I can just-” She said as checked the machines connected to the mirror.

Meanwhile over to the side Flurry Heart sat on the floor playing with the little balls that were junkrat’s Grenades.

“I don’t think that’s at all safe,” Sunset shimmer remarked as she watched Flurry hesitantly as she rolled and prodded the balls around.

“Eh it’s fine I already took out all of the explosive components. They’re completely harmless,” he said as Flurry took a strong swing at one of them in particular and it sailed to the fall wall where it then promptly exploded creating another small hole in the wall. All attention minus Twilight’s then focused on Junkrat who gave an embarrassed smile. “That’s the last one I swear,” he said as he started to sweat a bit under all the pressure.

“Ah! I got it!” Junkrat sighed audibly when Twilight exclaimed that she had figured out and the portal began to shine brighter until it’s round surface resembles an oscillating blue portal. Everyone looked and through the portal, they could see a futuristic-looking room with all different kind of machines and lights that seemed to be drawing Twilight in like a bug to a bright light.

“Woah there young princess!’ Twilight found her forward momentum stopped and felt herself being dragged back as Reinhardt called out and dragged her back by one of her forelegs. “I know it might seem inviting but this is a trip meant for us for now,” he said and Twilight blushed slightly when she realized that she had just been blindly walking towards the portal.

“But hopefully one day you’ll be able to visit. It'll Be nice to share things about our different worlds,” Winston told her giving her a pat on the shoulder as he moved the bound Reaper and Widowmaker closer to the portal.

“I’d like that Winston, I’m sorry your time here has been so short and...less peaceful than it should have been,” She said and Winston chuckled.

“Unfortunately things happen, it’s something a lot of us have come to live with while being in Overwatch. But I’m sure there will be a time where we can get together peacefully. Plus I’m sure we all left a good impression,” he told her and motioned behind her where she saw that each of her friends and family members was saying goodbye to someone who was about to leave. Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash all watched as Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo mercilessly hugged Tracer who giggled while they begged her not to go. Fluttershy was saying goodbye to Bastion while giving him tips about how to take care of Ganymede. Twilight wasn’t sure if Bastion even understood here but she did notice that he beeped and nodded at her every once and awhile. Sunset Shimmer, along with the princesses were trying to stop Reinhardt from bowing since he looked tired and were worried that he might not be able to get up. But he refused, citing his knightly code of honor which Princess Celestia humored him for saying that he served well and he should be proud of himself and for those that trained him, which seem to hit him emotionally as when he heard that his head shot up and he shed a few tears from his good eye. Pinkie Pie was helping Cadence and Shining Armor as she tried to pry the little princess away from Roadhog the former of which had a death grip on the former mask. It seemed like an impossible task until the silent larger pony stopped Pinkie before reaching into one of his many pouches and pulling out an exact spare of his mask. He held to up above his head and got Flurry’s attention and got her to switch to that mask before he lowered her down and handed her to Pinkie, giving her a quick pat on the head before stepping away.

“Wait are you telling me you have spares of that mask?” Junkrat asked incredulously and Roadhog just fixed with his emotionless steadfast masked stare for a bit before Junkrat just shrugged and backed off.

Spike was saying his goodbye to Genji, or at least that's what She though until she could see that he had a notepad in his claws and was furiously scribbling down notes while Genji was telling him something while doing some hoof motions. She’d have to take a look at exactly what Spike was trying to learn from Genji.

I think I can agree with that. BE sure to thank the rest of Overwatch for us when we get back. It’s nice to know that there are still groups of p-....beings out there looking out for and trying to help everyone,” She said not noticing the slight frown that formed quickly on Winston’s face before he switched back to a smile.

“I’ll be sure to tell them. I know they’ll enjoy hearing that,” he told her and was caught a little unaware when she reached up and wrapped her forelegs around as much of his neck as she could. He returned the hug wrapping his much larger arms around her for awhile. Before both of them were aware of the sudden silence followed by a loud clicking noise. When both of them looked the found Pinkie standing behind a camera which was pointed directly at them.

“Pinkie where did you get that camera?” She asked as Winston and her separated.

“Form one of your castles many many room Twilight! Why’d you ask?” Pinkie said and Twilight just rolled her eye and simply chalked it up to Pinkie being Pinkie.

“She is a very odd one,” Winston remarked.

“Yes she is, and that is one scientific study I will never finish,” Twilight told him

“You did a study on your friend?” Winston asked.

“I started but it was way to hazardous for my health. How about we take a photo before you all leave. So you can prove this for when you get back...and for a good memory?” Twilight said after remembering part of a very painful day.

“I think that would be a great idea,” Winston said before the two of them got everyone together for a picture.

Author's Notes:

and...almost done. little thing i want to finish on, should be soon...ish